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My Books For Dummies

A box of Online Marketing for Dummies book showed in my office today. Good little book. Going to hand them out to folks and some customers too.

But it got me thinking.

I really need the books for dummies you see below. (Something tells me I am not alone.)

Send me please!

Managing Email For Dummies: I’ve been in “email jail” more than Lindsey Lohan lately. (Email Jail is when you have wasted so much of your memory that you get locked up and can’t send messages). Aside from that being kind of Lindsey Lohan’s problem too, I just can’t delete my emails. What if I need them? And what’s wrong with 3,000 emails in my Inbox anyway?

How To Say “No” For Dummies: It is just hard to say “No” – “No” to people, an opportunity or a need. But if you say “Yes” to everything, nothing gets done well and it gets really customized and expensive and people are crazed putting out fires all day because not everything gets done well. A vicious cycle. But it’s hard to say “No” because people look at you funny and they don’t smile back.

How To NOT Multi-Task For Dummies: Of course we know the truth – True Multi tasking is a lie (and proven a lie by the way) as very, very, very few people can actually do it. But how do you stop trying? IM, the Twitter Feed, Email, a Conference Call, a bird flying by the window etc. Even in “flesh to flesh” meetings we all bring our gadgets and distract ourselves. We meet but never “meet”. I’m not the only one on a conference call who has ever said “Let me think about that” praying to all that is mighty that no one realizes I haven’t a clue what I was just asked about.

How To Go Green At Work For Dummies: Not sure about this where you work but where I am, I’m afraid to throw something away. There are blue buckets and green buckets and tall brown buckets and huge grey buckets with like, locks on em’ everywhere. There are buckets with holes, buckets with floppy tops and there are the unlabeled nondescript buckets just randomly lying askew in hallways staring at you, judging you as you walk by with nothing to give. For coffee, should you use paper “tree killing” cups? Or the styrofoam “landfill forever” cups? Or do you use your own cup and waste the water to clean it? It’s not easy being green, or is it?